20th Anniversary Celebration of the
Public History Internship Program at Ball State
University
This celebration will take place
on Friday, Sept. 19, from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the
L.A. Pittenger Student Center at Ball State in
Muncie.
It will consist of a series of morning sessions to be
held in Cardinal Hall B followed by a luncheon banquet
in the Music Lounge.
Sessions:
- PHIP alumni discuss how their internships prepared
them for professional employment in Public History
- Recent and current PHIP students discuss their
internships
- The Cantigny First Division Oral History Project
Showcase
The keynote address will be given by J. Ronald
Newlin, principal, Newlin Associates, LLC, Indianapolis,
on the topic of Social Utility: Public History and Civic
Purpose in a Web 2.0 World.
The luncheon banquet will take place in the Music
Lounge in Honor of PHIP Founding Director (1987-1997)
and Emeritus Professor John Weakland. The catered lunch
will be followed by the presentation of a plaque and
extemporized tributes from PHIP alumni and faculty
colleagues.
For the full schedule, visit http://www.bsu.edu/history/media/pdf/phip20th.pdf.
Faculty, students and alumni are encouraged to buy
tickets by Sept. 12 through Ms. Shelly Gage,
History Department administrative coordinator, in BB
200.
Tickets are $15 per person and are payable by check
in advance made out to the Ball State Foundation.
For PHIP alumni who are unable to attend, please send
Michael Doyle a brief account of where and when you did
your internship and how that experience may have
affected you in whatever career(s) you pursued after
graduation. We’re especially keen to obtain
tributes to John Weakland as a faculty mentor, which
we’ll compile into a portfolio for presenting to him at
the luncheon banquet.
For more information contact Michael Doyle at mwdoyle@bsu.edu or
(765) 285-8732, or visit www.bsu.edu/web/mwdoyle/hist_300-369.
Toby Goes to
Washington
This comedy play by Neil
Schaffner will be presented by the Scott County Museum
Theatre Company on Friday, Sept. 19 and Saturday, Sept.
20, at 7 p.m., and on Sunday, Sept. 21, at 2 p.m. in the
great room of the Scottsburg Middle School.
The advance cost is $6 for adults or $5 for groups of
10 or more, and $3 for children under 12. The cost at
the door is $8 for adults and $4 for children. Advance
tickets may be purchased at the Scott County Heritage
Center and Museum.
The play, considered to be one of Schaffner's best,
was written in 1942. It was first performed by his own
traveling repertoire stock company, the Schaffner
Players, one of the last tent theatres (or "Toby Shows")
popular in the mid-west and southwest during the first
half of the 20th Century. It is presented courtesy
of the Theatre History Museum, in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
Members of the cast include Danny Berry, Pam Rowden,
Leafy Roth, Dr. Bill Cooke, Ryan Heacock, Jeannette
Mount, and Lynn "Toby" Lamb. It is directed by Bob
Hollis, with the assistance of Colette Pedersen.
The Scottsburg Middle School is located on the
extreme south end of 3rd Street in Scottsburg. The great
room is located on the south side of the building.
For more information contact the museum at (812)
752-1050.
Junior Activity
Day
This event is for students in
grades one through six and will take place on Saturday,
Sept. 20, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the History Center
located at 103 E. Main St. in Greentown.
A walking tour of Greentown is planned, along with an
activity exploring the current exhibit, Who's Who in
Education. We invite all interested history buffs,
ages six through 12, to this event.
This is a free event, but participants are asked to
register by calling Karen Swan at (765) 628-3565 or
e-mailing the Greentown Historical Society at greentownhistory@comcast.net.
We need names of interested participants along with
phone numbers and/or addresses.
2nd Annual Plymouth History
Walk
This event from the Marshall
County Historical Society Museum will take place on
Sunday, Sept. 21, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Oakhill
Cemetery in Plymouth.
With the support of the Marshall County Historical
Museum, researchers from the Beta Delta Chapter of Tri
Kappa have once again mined the archives to bring some
of Plymouth’s early history to life. Local actors will
be portraying former Plymouth residents who are buried
in the oldest section of the cemetery. The event will
raise awareness of life in mid-19th century Plymouth and
share some of the interesting stories and faces of
Plymouth’s past.
The Marshall County Historical Museum will be on
hand, as well as Dr. Sue Rodgers of Earthworks, both
with educational and fun information, demonstrations and
displays for both adults and kids.
Parking is available at Miller’s Senior Living
Center, and a shuttle will be provided to the tour site.
Tours will head out at intervals and should last about
45 minutes, so guests are encouraged to arrive by 5:20
p.m. to ensure they enjoy the entire tour.
The event is free to the public, but free-will
donations will be accepted. Proceeds will go to the
Marshall County Historical Society Museum to promote
their efforts.
For more information call (574) 936-2306 or e-mail mchistory@mchistoricalsociety.org.
Potawatomi
Trail Festival and Caravan
The 33rd
Trail of Courage Living History Festival will
be held on Sept. 20 and 21, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on
Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday on the grounds
of the Fulton County Historical Society on U.S. 31 north
of Rochester.
Frontier Indiana comes alive with music and dance on
two stages, Indian dances, pre-1840 crafts and trading,
foods cooked over wood fires, contests, goats and
horses, muzzleloader shoots, cannon demo and canoe rides
on the Tippecanoe River.
Admission is $6 for adults, $2 for children
ages six to 11, and free for children ages five and
under.
For more information on this event, contact the
Fulton County Museum at (574) 223-4436 or fchs@rtcol.com, or
visit www.icss.net/~fchs.
On
Sept. 22, the day after the Trail of Courage Living
History Festival, the Trail of Death
Commemorative Caravan will start out on its 660
mile trek to travel the original route from north
central Indiana to eastern Kansas.
The public is welcome to join the caravan at any
point and travel as far as they wish, half a day or all
the way.
The group will meet at the Fulton County Museum at 8
a.m. on Sept. 22, then will caravan to the Chief
Menominee statue south of Plymouth for a special
ceremony at 9 a.m. in which George Schricker will sing
the song he wrote about “Menominee The Man Who Would Not
Sign.”
The goal of raising money to pay for Potawatomi Trail
of Death Regional Historic Trail highway signs has been
reached, permits obtained, and the signs ordered for
Cass, Carroll, Tippecanoe and Warren counties. The signs
are being erected by the county and city highways
departments, and will hopefully be up by Sept. 22 when
the Trail of Death Commemorative Caravan begins.
Historians all over Indiana are very appreciative of
these donations and thank the donors. Over 70 Trail of
Death historical markers and now the historic highway
signs were erected with donations from volunteers at no
expense to taxpayers. Potawatomi who had ancestors on
the Trail of Death extend their thanks also.
To register for the caravan or for a complete
itenerary, visit http://www.potawatomi-tda.org/,
or contact Shirley Willard at (574) 223-2352 or the
Fulton County Historical Society.
3rd
Annual Buffalo Tro
This event will
be held on Friday, Sept. 26, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the
Chief Richardville House, located at 5705 Bluffton Road
in Fort Wayne.
It was the most sought-after invitation of 1827. When
Chief Jean Baptiste de Richardville’s gracious Greek
Revival house was built, the most prominent citizens of
Fort Wayne vied to attend his dinner parties. Once
again, the Chief’s house will be filled with lights,
laughter, stories, music and a mouthwatering array of
food—and this time you’re invited!
Since 2004 the History Center in Fort Wayne has
thrilled audiences with its one-of-a-kind Buffalo Tro
historical interpretation at the Chief Richardville
House. In a unique combination of education,
entertainment and food, the Buffalo Tro
presents an introduction to Great Lakes Region Indian
cooking, followed by the cooking of hearty buffalo
steaks directly on a large bed of smoldering coals. The
result is a tasty meal of traditional and contemporary
Native American fares that guests and participants are
not soon to forget! Coupled with music, Miami Indian
cultural presentations, tours of the House and a silent
auction, the History Center has made its annual
Buffalo Tro the most memorable fundraiser in
Fort Wayne for the past two years.
The cost is $50 per person.
RSVP to Kelly Coffee at (260) 426-2882, x 308, by
September 19.
For more information, call the History Center at
(260) 426-2882, or visit http://www.fwhistorycenter.com/.
Insights in History for Seniors:
R.I.P. - Victorian Mourning
Customs
This event will take place on
Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 1:30 p.m. at the Center for
History in South Bend.
Admission is $3 and reservations are required by
September 29.
Barbara Whiteman, the Center for History’s exhibit
coordinator, will talk about mourning customs in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including
the sentimental symbolism often found on headstones,
traditional clothing worn during grieving periods, and
such personal keepsakes as hair wreaths. A tour of the
museum’s exhibit, R.I.P. - Victorian Mourning
Customs, which features photographs and artifacts
that show how Victorians and other cultures dealt with
death and grieving.
For more information, call (574) 235-9664 or visit http://www.centerforhistory.org/.
Mystery at the Mansion: Copshaholm
Cold Case
These mystery tours from the
Center for History in South Bend will take place at the
Oliver Mansion on Oct. 3 and 10 every five minutes
beginning at 5:30 p.m. with the last tour leaving at 8
p.m.
Each tour lasts approximately one hour.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $6 for
youth ages six to 17 and $5 for members.
One autumn evening over 125 years ago in 1879, Henry
and Esther Morris were shot in their home in Van Buren
County, Michigan. Although the Pinkerton Detective
Agency was hired to track down the villain, the mystery
was never unraveled. Using this unsolved misdeed as a
basis for its plot, the Center for History presents its
second annual Mystery at the Mansion: Copshaholm
Cold Case.
During tours of the Oliver Mansion, visitors will
"travel back in time" as they walk from room to room,
hearing conversations and clues given by over 15
performers portraying witnesses and suspects related to
the crime.
This year’s story begins in 1936 when a newspaper
reporter reopens the Morris file. At a dinner party
given at the Oliver Mansion, he recounts the heinous
crime. The reporter provides several clues, including
the fact that on the night of the incident, one man
passed someone–presumably the villain–riding on a horse
he recognized as being from the Morris farm and that the
following day, that horse was found at a home in nearby
South Bend. Listening to the accounts of those involved,
including the hired girl who was asleep in the house
when the crime took place, a man who inadvertently
passed the villain on horseback on the moonlit night, a
temperance leader who lived next door to the house where
the stolen horse was found, and a "rowdy, no-good
hooligan," visitors will complete a ballot to answer
"whodunit." Correct ballots will be eligible for a
drawing for the grand prize.
For information, call (574) 235-9664 or visit http://www.centerforhistory.org/.